Wherever we have lived – we have always endeavoured to do a bit of grow your own with mixed success, it has been very much a trial and error learning curve.

Now living in Hampshire and settled it seems, we thought it a good idea to put our names down on the list for an allotment, little did we realise the waiting list was around two years!.

During that wait our desire to grow our own became stronger, we would grow tomatoes and lettuce in our small greenhouse, and Carol successfully grew some spuds in those strong poly bags you can get, Ok it was only enough for a couple of meals, was satisfaction itself, and justified the attempt.